At 13:47 2/8/97 -0500, Jacob Drollinger wrote:
>Dear Milo,
>
>I have the exact same problems!! I have been unresponsive to all the classic
>P.D. drugs, and my symptoms are the same, lots and lots of falling. My
>Parkinsonism was the result of a brief yet severe insult to my brain, caused
>by Carbon monoxide poisoning. I ended up with damage to only the globus
>pallidus. I was wondering if you have any other symptoms, e.g. tremor,
>dyskinesia. I don't. My only other symptoms are bradykinesia and dystonia;
>which explains the falls, I guess.
>
>Jacob
>
Jacob,
I have many of the symptoms of typical PD, however the walking problem is
the only disabling one. I have a slight problem of Essential tremor, as my
mother and grandfather had also, (ie. active tremor , but no resting
tremor). Other than that I have no tremor. I also have bradykinesia,
dystonia, micrographia (now I can't write at all). I have read that if three
conditions exist, one should look for another diagnosis than idipathic
parkinsons. The three conditons are:
1. little or no tremor
2. no response to sinemet
3. the first symptom that appears is the gait problem
These match my experience comletely.
I can't say that I can identify a particular experience as you have done,
however I have worked in a laboratory where I could have been exposed to
mercury or carbontetrichloride.
---Milo
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